The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to permit the people to rise up against a tyrannous government. The Founding Fathers were about the oppression that can come from an overly ambitious federal or state government when they wrote that into the Constitution. That's why the federal government along with select state and local governments are desperate to remove gun rights from the citizens today. With one unconstitutional law passed after another, the federal government is moving America to a police state.

The best way to exercise complete control over the masses is to disarm them and make their 'safety' the responsibility of the government.

It didn't work in Rwanda though. The Hutus and the Tutsis simply hacked each other to death with machetes.

And the communists disarmed the Ukrainians and them starved them to death.

Yeah - gun control is great for government but not so great for the citizens.

I think it’s funny that so many believe having a personal firearm will prevent more government take over. If it were to get to that could you kill someone who is also an American and was drafted by the very government that you are taking arms against? A husband, son, father, brother of your neighbor, could you?....I think not.